Search Results for Michael Manley

...David Scott This essay offers a reconsideration of Michael Manley’s first book, The Politics of Change (1974), and uses it as the basis for a reconsideration of Manley’s conception of the role of political will in postcolonial political change. Specifically, though, I’m going to be concerned...

... Labour Party and the People’s National Party. WPJ ideologists were sharply critical of Michael Manley’s democratic socialism that the PNP had declared in 1974, but they eventually modified this to one of critical support for Manley’s policies. The WPJ disbanded in 1990, after internal dissension over...

...Veerle Poupeye This essay reflects on how social unrest and violence are responded to in the mainstream visual arts of postcolonial Jamaica. The focus is on two particular moments of crisis: the social unrest and political violence during the Michael Manley administration in the 1970s...

..., Julius K. Nyerere, then president of Tanzania, paid a four-day official state visit to Jamaica at the invitation of the prime minister, Michael Manley. I was a secondary school student at Jamaica College at the time, unsteadily trying to find my way in Marxist debates about socialist transition...

... to build Jamaica since independence? 5 The person who gained the most votes was Michael Manley. I found this very surprising. The sentiment that I had become used to hearing expressed over the last forty years was that “Michael Manley mash up the country.” Time and time again in (nonacademic) social...

... the death of his father, aaxexe Michael Manley is working energetically to gain the support and to encourage a younger generation to come on board. And everybody is approached directly by Michael Manley. I don’t remember being approached by him, but I wasn’t important at that point...

... but an ambiguous landscape of hope and disappointment. There was a pervading atmosphere of radical change, of real, concrete transformative possibility, but also a creeping sense of worry and uncertainty, as though, maybe, it was all already too late. On a platform of democratic socialism, Michael Manley...

...), allowed ideas to contend. He was less self-consciously democratic than Manley, who as a lawyer by training had to go to court to win his cases. Michael [Manley] would say, “Where I come from, we don’t chase an opposing ideology underground, we out-argue it.” DS: Let’s go back...

... of these trends concerns the transition in the leadership of the nationalist party, the People's National Party, with the retirement and subsequent death (in July and September 1969, respectively) of its founding president, Norman Manley, and the succession of his son, Michael. At the time of his retirement...

... the People's National Party, now led by the chosen son, Michael Manley, reactivated and rehabilitated the nationalist-socialist project of the 1940s in a new and changed local and global environment: sugar cooperatives, nationalizations, minimum wage, free education, anti-imperialism, and so on. That was my...

... of Jamaica by seemingly constitutional means.” 6 The 1983 novel is set in the “summertime” of an unspecified year, the only temporal marker being a reference to the “now distant days of the Michael Manley administration” (31). Yet it bears unmistakable traces of being a 1970s novel, not least of them...

.... Norman Manley, father of Michael Manley, was a key architect of Jamaican statist-nationalism. For Bogues, Manley’s vision of politics “privileged institutional forms of the state and government as the markers of political modernity. . . . Organized politics became essentially...

... and the Courtesy Manleyof the Edna Foundation mother of former prime minister Michael Manley, she was also intimately linked to twentieth- Fig. 2. Edna Manley, Negro Aroused, 1935. Collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica...

... imitated by Lauryn Hill. Another is the picture of Marley joining together—in a demonstration of peace and unity—the hands of Michael Manley and Edward Seaga at the National Stadium in Kingston, while Marley himself was framed with the halo of the full moon. Another contender...

... back into the Western camp” by encouraging Prime Minister Michael Manley to reconsider the package of loans and economic arrangements being offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).49 A look at the reporting of Young’s visits to Jamaica during this period frames his advice to Manley...

... on foreign imports. 23 While in 1972 the party ran with the slogan “better must come,” by 1976 the PNP had officially embraced the path of democratic socialism and changed its campaign slogan to “socialism is love.” Prime Minister Michael Manley made it clear that “it was the government's intention...

... and the socialist experiment of the first People's National Party administration of Michael Manley. In this way, we hope to systematically revisit other formative decades in the historiography of Jamaica—we are already talking, for example, about the 1930s, the 1950s, the 1980s. And, of course, as we do so we...

.... In the novel this attack occurs as a product of a power struggle within the neighborhood gangs aligned with the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP), which was struggling to unseat the democratic socialist government of then prime minister Michael Manley. Josey Wales (a rising “don” based on the historical gang kingpin...

..., 1960–1972. Accounts of the movement in Jamaica tend to focus on the later phase dominated by the leadership of Michael Manley and the PNP experiment with “democratic socialism.” 8 | SX24 • From New World to Abeng Abeng newspaper, distributed it around, in Westmoreland, around...

... the capital city, members had as their tasks distributing printed materials to the outlying parishes. The text was produced as a public-facing document in the immediate aftermath of political loss, that is, the electoral defeat of Michael Manley and the People’s National Party government and the victory...